The Assimilation: Rock Machine to Bandidos - Hardcover

Clercq, Wil De; Winterhalder, Edward

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ISBN 10: 1550228242 ISBN 13: 9781550228243

Verlag: ECW Press,Canada, 2008

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"Details Winterhalder's efforts to take Canadian bikers into the Bandidos' fold amid a bloody war in Quebec." --"Hartford Courant"

"Engaging, witty, and conversational." --"Quill and Quire"

"Winterhalder makes an important contribution to the documentation of a quintessentially American subculture." "--Booklist"

"Focuses on Winterhalder's life, and the difficulties of being a ranking officer in the national chapter, business owner, and single father." --"Tulsa World"

"Details Winterhalder's efforts to take Canadian bikers into the Bandidos' fold amid a bloody war in Quebec." --"Hartford Courant"

"Extremely compelling. . . . I read this in one sitting and would recommend this to anyone with an interest in motorcycles or even an interest in organizations that may be straddling the law. " --"Crimespree"

"Intriguing. . . . Winterhalder certainly has the credentials to speak with authority about motorcycle clubs in general, and the Bandidos in particular. . . . In an extremely incisive and informed dissection, Winterhalder moves out of the shadows to give his take on the [Shedden, Ontario] slayings"."" --"The Globe and Mail"

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In the early 1990s, Maurice Mom” Boucher and his fellow Montreal Hells Angels, reputedly the most ruthless and vicious bikers in the world, subdued all comers except the tough-as-nails members of the Rock Machine. Founded by Salvatore Cazzetta, an ex-friend of Boucher, the Rock Machine had every intention of standing up against the Hells Angels. Seven years of bloody conflict, which left over 160 people dead and countless injured, was the result. Heavily outnumbered, the Rock Machine appealed to the worldwide Bandidos Motorcycle Club, who rivaled the Hells Angels in terms of membership and strength. In January 2000, the Rock Machine ceased to exist and became a probationary Bandidos chapter the first to be established on Canadian soil. Biker Edward Winterhalder was assigned by the Bandidos to coordinate the transition. Although the stage had been set for an end to the biker war and a positive outcome for all, it was anything but. Starting with the arrest and unsuccessful deportation proceedings of Winterhalder by the Canadian authorities, more intrigue, assassinations, and double-crosses, Winterhalder found himself in a situation even he found impossible to control. In The Assimilation, Winterhalder in collaboration with author Wil De Clercq recalls his life and times as an outlaw biker; his personal involvement in the creation of the Quebec Bandidos; his friendship with the key players who made it happen; and his eventual disillusionment with, and exit from, the Bandidos Nation.

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• Verlag: ECW Press,Canada
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1550228242
• ISBN 13: 9781550228243
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 312